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I was looking at a question that got posted at the end of the day yesterday that I wasn't able to get to from James. Do you condemn Israel supplying Azerbaijan with weapons to kill Armenians? This is, according to everything I know, not Israel's intent as to how weapons would be used. There's been interaction between Israeli leaders and folks in Armenia.
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Not sure what was happening, but we've got our phone lines open there. I'm not going to condemn Israel for the sale of weapons that were used a certain way because that was not Israel's intent ultimately to hurt Armenia. I regret they were used in certain ways, but how many ways are American weapons used? Or a gun manufacturer makes a gun that someone uses for purposes very contrary to the law. But here's the deal about Israel. I will not, I refuse to compare Israel taking out terrorists, and as Israel takes out a terrorist, there are civilian casualties that Israel tries to avoid. I refuse to compare that to a terrorist intentionally killing civilians.
You're comparing apples to elephants. You've got two completely different categories here. You know, it's like this. You've got someone running from the police, right? And the police are chasing this person. They just killed someone, they got in their car, they're driving off, the police are chasing them. And as they're chasing them, the person gets into a car wreck and others are, because of the chase, they're hurt. Okay, the police did not intend to have anyone hurt in doing that. I'm not going to compare that to the murder where someone intentionally takes another life. Alright, so let's keep our comparisons right and fair.
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Welcome to the Line of Fire. Go ahead. Yeah. Scripture, we're supposed to live by any word that proceeds from the mouth of God. In Exodus 18 and 21, God told Moses to choose rulers that fear God, love truth, and hate God. I believe that's the biblical standard that we should use for choosing your elected officials.
What's good to the imagination does Donald Trump meet those standards? Yeah. So here's the deal. Are we Israel? No, we're America. We're America, which is not a nation chosen by God with a constitution given by God. Are all Americans required to live by the Ten Commandments?
No, no. So ideally, ideally, if we can find candidates that are God fearing people, wonderful. But you here, many people feel one of our worst presidents was Jimmy Carter. He was a Bible believing Christian taught Sunday school, and other presidents weren't as as Christian and did a much better job. So we're, ideally, I would rather have someone who has those kind of morals. But saying we live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God, I could ask you if you live by 100 of the laws in the book of Exodus or Leviticus or Deuteronomy, you say no, that was just for Israel.
That's not for today or so on. So yes, to the extent we can have God fearing leaders, all the better. But neither of the candidates are that category. As far as I can tell, Donald Trump does not really know the Lord.
Kamala Harris does not really know the Lord. And so we're choosing okay between the two candidates who have a chance of getting in, which one we do we think we do the better job on issues for America as a whole. And that's how we vote. So integrity matters, character matters. But we ideally, if we had all God fearing people or pool of them to choose from, and we were God fearing nation, wonderful. But that was for Israel. And if we could live it out in principle, great.
But I don't know any candidate running major office for running president right now, there's a chance of being elected that lives up to that. So I would not make that as a Bible mandate, sir. Okay, let's go to Joe in California. Welcome to the line of fire. Shalom, Dr. Braun, how are you? Doing well, thank you. I have a question regarding your question regarding your debate with Gabe Finocchio. I think I don't know if I'm pronouncing his last name. Correct.
I think you're okay. Well, clearly you won that debate. There's no way of getting around Romans 9, 10, and 11 without without Israel being the the people of God and his promises towards Abraham, which are irrevocable.
That's, that's a setting stone. But he did press you on a point. And I do agree with him. And I want to see if you could explain it a little bit clearer why you don't agree with him. When he told you that Israel is an Antichrist, and he quoted John, 1 John 2, 22, whoever denies Jesus is the Christ, he is an Antichrist and denies the Father and the Son, you did not agree. And I wanted to know why you did not agree.
You kept mentioning that, you kept mentioning that, have you read their prayer book and whatnot. But when he told you that, if we were talking about Muslims, or anybody else, you will clearly say that there we have not every case, I wouldn't say it in every case. It's a matter of it's a matter of context. Yeah.
And by winning the debate, I was on the right side of the issue. You know what I'm saying? Just agree. Yeah. Okay. So this is a matter of doctrinal error within the body.
Okay. That's what john was dealing with. John was dealing with doctrinal error within the body.
First, john 220, but you have an anointing from the Holy One. And all of you know the truth. I do not write you because you do not know the truth. But because you do know the truth, because you know it, because no lie comes from the truth who is the liar, it is whoever denies that Jesus is the Messiah, such a person is the Antichrist denying the Father and the Son, no one denies the Father, the Son has the Father, whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father. Now, he also says something very interesting, we go back to verse 18, to your children, this is the last hour. And as you've heard that the Antichrist is coming, even though many Antichrists have come, this is how we know it is the last hour, they went out from us, but they did not really belong to us.
For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But they're going show that none of them belong to Susie talk about the people who are now denying that Jesus is Messiah, they used to be part of us, but they're not. Your average Jewish person is not thinking about Jesus.
It's not in their mind. When an ultra Orthodox rabbi is praying three times a day to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and praying for redemption, praying for mercy, Jesus is no more in his mind than Buddha is on your mind. So the Antichrist is the one who in this context, is claimed to be part of the body, and is now denying some of these fundamentals of the faith or is actively denied. So for example, a rabbi who is actively fighting against Christians, and denying the Messiahship of Jesus. Yeah, it's Antichrist.
I have no problem saying that. But it is it is an anti Semitic libel, to say that all Jews are therefore Antichrist, or Ben Shapiro is an Antichrist. Ben Shapiro is encouraging Christians to be Christians. Ben Shapiro is encouraging Christians go to church and follow Jesus and worship Jesus as Christ. That's not Antichrist.
It's just a way of attacking Jews further. So it's talking about in context, instead of the commentaries on it, I dug deep to double check on certain things that I believe for years. The commentaries recognize who it's talking about.
It's not an abstract person. Your average Muslim reveres Jesus and thinks highly of him as a prophet, right. But in their mind, at least they're saying, okay, he's not the Messiah. So you could argue that for Muslims more, but your average Jew, it's not it's not in their mind.
It's not what they're thinking. They're not Antichrist. They're not opposing and or Dennis Prager.
I've interacted with Dennis, you know, numbers of times. Dennis believes he's helped more people become Christians than most Christians. So he's not Antichrist just as a Jew.
He doesn't believe Jesus is the Messiah, but he's encouraging Christians to follow him as the Messiah. That's why I make that distinction. Does that make sense? Yes, it does. Thank you. Yeah, you are.
You are very welcome. And listen, I love Joe. The fact that you can agree but raise a question where you differ because that's it's a big body and there's lots of areas we can agree. Eighty percent. Ninety percent.
Not on other things as well. But thank you, sir, for the call. No, thank you. Thank you. Do you really enjoy the debate? Yeah. And remember, the other thing, Joe, is that I'm on the front lines day and night reaching Jewish people with the gospel and running into the opposition. So I'm not trying to glorify Jews are like, oh, that you were just wonderful, though we have plenty of people resisting the gospel and those would be Antichrist.
But you're going to in context, different efforts. I thank you for the call. Eight six six three four eight seven eight eight four. We'll be back with your calls and YouTube questions on the other side of the break. This is Michael Ellison, founder of Tributa Wellness. I want you to hear an amazing testimony from my friend James Robison, and most all of you will know of him. He and his wife, Betty, host the Life Today television program. Now, here is James. Let me tell you about a miracle I experienced. My friend Michael Ellison.
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Thank you so much for standing with us today. find the article really interesting if you get our Friday emails you'll know about this because we sent it out to you in an email our latest articles YouTube videos so it's a free subscription go to the line of fire org the line of fire org and click subscribe also if you want to ask a question on YouTube if you want to ask a question on YouTube what you do is put at the line of fire and then go ahead and ask this where your question will stand out from the chat and guys if we get some questions to post go ahead and do it we go over to New Jersey Andrew welcome to the line of fire hey dr. Brown how are you sir doing well thank you my question is more two-part question number one you stated before a couple of times you've done like teaching lectures and things and you said it in the base with rabbis that the law of Moses was given specifically to the nation of Israel and not to the other nations aka the Gentiles do you have a biblical reference that specifically or pertains to that statement oh yeah I mean it's it's pretty ubiquitous in Scripture now there there are laws that are universal for all people that Scripture emphasizes like murder for example was given in Genesis 9 whoever sheds man's blood by man will be blood you shed but yeah let's let's just start with leading up to the giving of the law on Mount Sinai okay so yes we go to Exodus chapter 19 Exodus 19 and the first day the third month God speaks so verse 3 Moses went up to God and the Lord called to him from the mountain and said this is what you are to say to the descendants of Jacob and what you are to tell the people of Israel you yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt and how I carried you on eagles wings and brought you to myself now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant then out of all the nations you will be my treasured possession although the whole earth is mine you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation these are the words you to speak to this really so the whole calling of Israel or giving him out law on Mount Sinai is in this context the whole earth belongs to him if he's chosen Israel out then you know when you're in and you know they're in the Psalms they can reiterate this but when you're in in in the book of Deuteronomy and it's it's talking about the laws that God gave the question is asked okay what what other nation did God give laws and statutes like this to it's even said God let the rest of the world worship idols just looking for some of the best verses on this you know for example in Oh Deuteronomy 4 I'm looking for best section here where I've just tried it there's a there's a whole long discourse but he the whole world is to look at Israel says what other nation was brought out by God and given such laws which he didn't give to everyone else and you know the Psalms extolled the Lord who gave these he didn't give these to the nations and gave them to us and then in the New Testament when you get into practical matters is this for everybody acts 15 no this was that all the commands were not given to all the nations otherwise everyone be required to keep this the gospel would make no difference right you know what to keep the same laws but it's kind of presupposed everyone I'm just searching for the best single verse but the theme starts in Exodus 19 you out of everybody you're the treasure possession given these laws given these commandments even act 17 God says that in the past you know the whole world's worshiping idols and obviously God did not call the whole world the way he called Israel there is still responsibility but not being under law so what why would you question that is my question well so I know people who are part of the Jewish roots movement they call themselves messianic they call themselves Jewish roots it's often not debated but had conversations with people and one of the things that somebody I know keeps pointing out is going back to Exodus when the Israelites when Pharaoh finally set them free one of the things that he likes to point out is that it wasn't just Israel that left Egypt when they were when they left it was a multitude of other nations that were a part of Israel or that were went with Israel so it wasn't it right we don't know how many other nations but other Egyptians other people but here's the deal became part of Israel God gave to those people so to the descendants of Abraham Isaac and Jacob and those who joined to them their argument is that for the person that lived among Israel that there was one law that's their arguments they're called one more people right mm-hmm so they recognize that God uniquely gave the law to Israel but then if you became part if you live there as a foreigner okay you still have to keep the Sabbath you still have to do certain things right mm-hmm our argument would be oh so then their thing would be now in the New Testament so they recognize that the rest of the world was not required to keep this they don't argue that point but they would say that now as a follower of Jesus you become grafted into Israel and therefore you are required to keep this one law Paul explicitly deals with this in 1st Corinthians 7 begin verse 17 and says if you were circumcised when you were called meaning called to salvation don't become uncircumcised if you're living a Jewish life before you got saved don't become a Gentile conversely if you're uncircumcised when you're called don't become circumcised so Jews remain Jews Gentiles remain Gentiles and that's why in Romans 14 Paul says okay one lives like this one looks like this because you had Jews and Gentiles living together in Jesus as a body and they didn't have the same practice and custom so right that's the answer to it that in the Old Testament system yeah if you lived among Israel you can partake but even so for example the Passover if you were a foreigner if you wanted to partake you to be circumcised you still had to go deeper actually become part of that now in Jesus that's no longer necessary you are joint heirs in the Messiah which is why Paul in Colossians 2 says don't let anybody pressure you about Sabbath observance and things like that those are just shadows the realities of Messiah so it's addressed directly because there was pressure and that's where the one law people get things right yeah I think I think from his perspective the person I've I've had discussions with their one of the things that they've talked about is because those other nations were included in Israel and and when the law was given to Moses and included those other nations so that his mindset is and kind of like what you were talking about in the New Testament when it talks about being grafted into Israel he said he kind of makes a blanket statement talking about in the law of the Old Testament supplies the other the other thing Romans 11 Paul tells Gentile believers to provoke Israel to be envious so he doesn't call the Gentile believers Israelites he calls the Gentile believers to provoke Israel to envy plus Exodus 19 is clear the whole earth is mine but you are my treasure possession who Israel and there are some other foreigners that could join you but now you have to fully become part of Israel doesn't say it was representatives from all nations is completely self-defeating say right so if you can if you lived in Egypt at that time and were among the people doesn't say from all the nations doesn't say that they came out from Egypt and joined the Israelites okay then you got in on the entry level what's the right the whole Old Testament emphasis over and over and over and over is Israel a special requirement so you read Amos 1 & 2 and God rebukes the surrounding nations for free for a violation of covenant for acts of cruelty things like that then he addresses Israel for that plus violating all the things that they were called to do covenantally so it's really if you just read through Deuteronomy the first six chapters as an example you will see overwhelmingly over and over the emphasis I chose you out I signaled you out and there are no other nations on the planet and the psalmist we can that who else did you give statutes like this to only Israel so again and the whole tenor of scripture for you and an extra theme settles the issue in terms of what's required Gentile believers entering and no you have to keep the entire world say thank you sir thank you very much all right it's this is Michael Ellison founder of Travita wellness I want you to hear an amazing testimony from my friend James Robinson and most all of you will know of him he and his wife Betty hosts the life today television program now here is James let me tell you about a miracle I experienced my friend Michael Ellison he and his wife are our 40 year plus best friends well let me just say this to you I had so much pain with what was called tennis elbow that I could hardly reach over and pick up the phone without pain without it hurting me I couldn't pick up something to drink a glass of tea or anything it was very difficult to do anything without wearing a tight strap and then Michael shared the nopal cactus juice with me no Pele I began drinking about that much in the morning in the glass and that much later in the day and in three months I was a different person I have now gone more than ten years with no pain not better well I have no joint pain I am telling you it did something to the inflammation in my body that was undeniable that's just my testimony but that's been more than ten years with no pain matter of fact if I miss for some foolish reason a few days I can feel it creeping back that fast so give it a try see if it helps relieve your pain I hope it does like it has mine because it worked for me no Pele is supported by clinical studies for lowering inflammation and improving mobility flexibility and range of emotion in the neck back and joints for less reliance on pain medication and improved quality of life call eight hundred seven seven one five five eight four and use promo code brown 25 to receive 25% off your order as a new customer 100% of your order goes to support the line of fire call eight hundred seven seven one five five eight four or go online to try beta doc it's the line of fire with your host doctor michael brown get on the line of fire by calling eight six six three four truth here again is dr. michael brown six three four trees go back to the phones in a moment on YouTube from Jesus first what do you think of Ruslan promoting cigars and tobacco on his Christian channel that kids watch I'm not into promoting cigars and tobacco period I have no idea about Ruslan doing that or not first I've heard I'm not like close buddies where I just immediately talked with him about it but if we're ever talking I'll ask him about it but I wasn't aware of that but I'm not into promoting cigars or tobacco period in any setting let's see from Planet X Jeremiah 38 speaks about Israel recovering from war when you mean Ezekiel not Jeremiah Ezekiel 38 when Gog and Magog is going to attack could it however be a distant possibility these events happening this time around there are two ways to read the Gog Magog prophecies in Ezekiel 38 39 which follow on the prophecies of the return from exile 36 37 the two ways to read it one is that this is the final war before the Lord returns at a time when every Israel's dwelling peacefully and on walled cities and there seems to be no more threats and and then the final attack comes and that would be described in Zechariah 12 and Zechariah 14 is there any hint that we're near that right now Israel's under constant bombardment so there's no no possible way the other way to understand Ezekiel 38 39 is in the context of Revelation 20 which refers to it or references it as after the Millennial Kingdom so everything's peaceful at the end of the Millennial Kingdom Satan's loose and there's this final rebellion etc it doesn't say it's an attack on Israel specifically but an attack on God could it be an attack on Israel possibly I look at Revelation 20 Gog Magog there as just imagery from the Old Testament the book of Revelation is filled with imagery from the Old Testament without using it in chronological order I understand that it appears first of the seven is five everyone saying peace and safety then sudden destruction comes that there will be some type of of peace and it be enough for Israel's security systems to not be as needed and then a final war and then a final deliverance if we're understanding the passages correctly but when it comes to future prophecy you have to you can look at the broad themes which are non-negotiable and then specifics you have to have some room to just interpret lightly because we can we cannot fully understand some things until they unfold it's six six three four truth let's go to Willie and Kentucky welcome to the line of fire thanks dr. Brown for having me again I really enjoy your show me and my wife both support your ministry and actually I've learned a lot of my I mean my schooling my theological everything pretty much from you and so I appreciate you standing on the front lines and now I got a question yeah yeah I appreciate you thanks for everything you do I have a question and that the call screener had asked me and so it's about acts 238 and I had been studying that and I have a the interlinear Bible actually is a scriveners TR but any anyhow like some of these churches that I see and it says repent you know and it says change your mind basically and be immersed the Greek word immersed into pardon of sins right and I mean so so if we are upon the name of Jesus which does away with the Jesus name right and so I'm trying to differentiate all this and it says to be immersed into pardon of sins so wouldn't that wouldn't that mean first of all me ask you this every time the word baptism is used or immersion it doesn't always automatically mean in water correct well right you can be immersed in the spirit baptized in the spirit right but here right so in this setting though in this setting of baptism immersion was a common practice if you ever go on a tour to Israel you'll you'll normally see in front of the the Temple Mount area that all these places and some conspicuous steps down little pool steps up so this was very common there were all around the temple people would richly immerse going in for ritual cleansing things like that John the immerse you're now tied it in with the theme of repentance which the Apostles were so there's no question here that the this is water baptism and that people were baptized in water and then the promise of the Holy Spirit was given to them who would believe and be baptized but this is this is clearly water baptism and it was for so that the ace in Greek ace office and for forgiveness or the cancellation of the debt of sins is for the purpose of it's it's into in that sense for the purpose of okay so my mentality was thinking you know you'd be immersed into pardon of sins in other words you believe Jesus died paid for your sins and you stay immersed in that basically until you draw your last breath or until you go to be with the Lord then you will receive the Holy Spirit by staying immersed in that does that make sense oh it's a nice idea but it's not with the text to say yeah okay all right so here's here's what happens though we've got a friend just moved from Netherlands to Florida and now gets hit with successive hurricanes house destroyed and he sent a note to us like welcome in America well we don't say welcome in we say welcome to but that tells you if you're speaking Dutch you would say welcome in okay the prepositions what's the difference between going down the road going up the road right it's like I mean yeah so the if I say to someone in Hebrew I was listening to you on the radio that would mean I was sitting on the radio while listening to you because I was on the radio in Hebrew you say I was listening to you in the radio so prepositions are very much used idiomatically in language so when you see the be baptized in the name of Jesus into forgiveness of sins you're reading it as if you're putting the prepositions into English whereas ace in Greek can mean for the purpose of so into as in for the purpose of so that that's the difference if it was that simple to translate then we wouldn't need translators so it's it's dramatic and that's why we don't translate exact literal word for word because it doesn't necessarily work in other languages so it's a nice concept but no it was the baptism for the purpose of forgiveness of sins through faith in Jesus the baptism is is the outward symbolizing of the spiritual act for forgiveness of sins hey thank you for the call and for the kind words where we this is our school we want to teach and train so thank you we appreciate it you're welcome all right eight six six three four truth we go to let's see here from Adam is Isaiah 53 about Israel or Jesus when I read Isaiah 53 it sounds like Jesus but some say it's about Israel rather than Jesus can you explain it to me as you would a child so what I encourage you to do if you're on YouTube just type in dr. Brown Isaiah 53 you can see whole debates I've done on it and whole lectures I've done on it but explaining it for a child it's talking about a person who takes the place of the guilty ones and if you read Isaiah who were the guilty ones the people of Israel the nation of Israel so explaining it to a child I say the ones that did the bad stuff that's the nation the good one who suffered for the bad people that's Jesus so it's that's for a child for a little child but Adam it's crystal clear overwhelmingly clear that's why so many Jewish people have come to faith just by reading Isaiah 53 but if you're on our YouTube channel just put in dr. Brown Isaiah 53 you'll see whole lectures just on that you'll see where I refute some of the errors of counter missionary rabbi told you sing a really egregious errors and even debates that I've done on Isaiah 53 so you'll find it very helpful there thank you we go to Illinois Al welcome to the line of fire dr. Brown Lord bless you Yahweh bless you in the name of Yeshua I really appreciate your ministry and your teaching and how you literally no pun intended intended staying in the line of fire for all of us I have a question I have a similar background as you I was raised and I went me to evangelical Pentecostal kind of environment most of my life in the last few years I've come to learn the Hebrew roots and I've really gotten into the Torah and you know I always I always question myself where you know I want to make sure I'm biblically sound and not getting into traditions of men and with that I ask this question when we observe the Shabbat I've learned I've learned through the scriptures right then it's obviously it's done a Sabbath and it's sundown and Sun up I get all of that what I've not seen in the Bible maybe I missed it is the traditions that I see that come with that right like the Shabbat bread or lighting of the candles I don't see anything wrong with it I just don't I haven't seen that anywhere is that is that a Talmud expression or it's all tradition it's grown up okay Jewish homes over the years if you're a traditional Jew you're lighting Shabbat candles now why are you lighting candles well in ancient world didn't have electricity right so it gets bring it and you like candles you're not supposed to light a flame on the Sabbath so you're gonna like the candles to burn you know before you go to sleep for a few hours and you know and in ancient world also you're not only staying up till 4 in the morning you're going to sleep you know getting up real early etc so the candles burn for a few hours and you're good but in traditional Judaism you say the words the the the wife prays the prayer you commanded us to light the the Sabbath candles well he never commanded that it's pure Jewish tradition and here is it so if you enjoy doing something that has meaning there's nothing wrong with it if you grew up in a Jewish home and this was part of what you used to and now you're a believer and you enjoy it wonderful but that is purely Jewish tradition without any scriptural support whatsoever that's what I thought thank you so much I just I didn't find it anywhere and really you know sometimes it doesn't feel bad to do it I just wanted to make sure that I'm not you know doing this thing I'll just say to you for it for any Gentile believer that finds Sabbath observance important remember always the substance the focus is always on Jesus Yeshua that's the focus the moment that your main focus becomes have to keep this commandment or keep this law you've gotten off track the focus is always intimacy with God through Jesus Yeshua sharing him not not preaching Torah preaching Jesus for sure go through the book of Acts what do they preach they preach they preach Jesus they preach Yeshua died for our sins rose from the dead Lord of all that's got to be the heart the soul the whole emphasis the moment that becomes secondary or off track whatever other emphasis there is we've gotten off track hey thank you sir for the call grace to you eight six six three four eight seven eight eight four this is Michael Ellison founder of Travita wellness I want you to hear an amazing testimony from my friend James Robison and most all of you will know of him he and his wife Betty hosts the life today television program now here is James let me tell you about a miracle I experienced my friend Michael Ellison he and his wife are our 40 year plus best friends well let me just say this to you I had so much pain with what was called tennis elbow that I could hardly reach over and pick up the phone without pain without it hurting me I couldn't pick up something to drink a glass of tea or anything it was very difficult to do anything without wearing a tight strap and then Michael shared the nopal cactus juice with me nopal a I began drinking about that much in the morning in the glass and that much later in the day and in three months I was a different person I have now gone more than ten years with no pain not better well I have no joint pain I am telling you it did something to the inflammation in my body that was undeniable now that's just my testimony but that's been more than ten years with no pain matter of fact if I miss for some foolish reason a few days I can feel it creeping back that fast so give it a try see if it helps relieve your pain I hope it does like it has mine because it worked for me nopal a is supported by clinical studies for lowering inflammation and improving mobility flexibility and range of emotion in the neck back and joints for less reliance on pain medication and improved quality of life call eight hundred seven seven one five five eight four and use promo code brown 25 to receive 25% off your order as a new customer 100% of your order goes to support the line of fire call eight hundred seven seven one five five eight four or go online to try beta doc it's the line of fire with your host dr. Michael Brown get on the line of fire by calling eight six six three four truth here again is dr. Michael Brown Greg and Carrie North Carolina welcome to the line of fire hello dr. Brown how you doing long time no talk to hey I have a question um about first John 2 16 where it mentions the lust of the flesh the lust of the eye and a pride of life I was wondering if you consider those the um root of sin well it's it's interesting I mean they are fundamental and they are it theoretically can take in everything right and if you go to Genesis 3 and many believe this is the imagery there so so it's the the lust lust of the go ahead and say them again lust of the flesh lust of the eye and product life okay so what's the first temptation in the garden when Apple right so that the fruit the forbidden fruit right so Eve let's take a look at this in Genesis the third chapter when when when the serpent comes and and says hey you know why can't you eat this so the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food so the lust of the flesh and pleasing to the eye lust of the eyes and also desirable for gaining wisdom pride of life so many think that's where John is getting this imagery from lust of the flesh mmm looks like good food lust of the eyes Wow check out how it looks and pride of life get lies with this so I think you could say this broadly takes in all different types of sinful desires you know and lust of the flesh is just the carnal things and the sex drive and drugs and drink and what you you know what you want the lust of the eyes I have to have this I have to have this I have and then pride of life is everything just comes with being somebody I think you could kind of put all sins and temptations into one of those three categories but he's speaking in generalities there and certainly like giving a breakdown of the world versus the eternal things of God and they do tie in nicely with Genesis 3 so it's good it's a good threefold division of of the world versus God's Kingdom sure and it's weird that it's in numbers of three you know just cuz I talked to you about this before where Satan likes to try to counterfeit and tries to do things where he he tries to make it look like he's doing things like of God but dirt and hit evil and that is what he's doing you know like the threefold cord the the the trinitarian threefold cord of satanic deception yeah I mean I mean many times things are divided into twos divided into threes but it is interesting that satanic domain they're divided as well hey Greg thanks for the call I appreciate it thank you very much dr. Brown always enjoy your show thank you hey just a reminder on that note because Greg be one of our North Carolina listeners all right so big big announcement and are you ready we are going to have beginning on radio so everyone listening on podcast you're gonna get a brand new podcast five days a week if you subscribe to our podcast whoever it is iTunes Spotify where every charisma media wherever you get it you're gonna continue to get it truth radio network you're gonna continue to get the podcast just the same except instead of a live one-hour show it's going to be a teaching format pre-recorded we're gonna dive into subjects and spend weeks in them really digging really exploring really opening them up so you're gonna love it it's already launched in several hundred radio stations so we're gonna make that switch on our podcast and on this station which means if you're used to listening excuse me the second half hour now that that's gonna be somebody else another program will you'll hear the first half hour as always but if you said but I only listen the second half hour just subscribe to the podcast all right it's the line of fire or starting November the name will be courage in the line of fire to distinguish that and then if you don't want to miss live feeds because we're gonna be doing all different times long interviews different things all kinds of cool stuff because we won't have the one hour we have to be sitting here live every day make sure you subscribe to our YouTube channel so when you get a chance go to the line of fire on YouTube the line of fire click subscribe and Bing ring the bell this way you'll be notified when we're putting out new material all right we go over to Mike in Utah welcome to the line of fire hey dr. Brown thanks for taking my call I was reading your book of silencing the lambs and thanks for that has some really good stuff in it and I realized oh he's on the air right now so I'm gonna ask him this question do it it's about I was writing a little essay about you know how you hear the woke argument about founding fathers were racist but I don't see too many people bringing up the racist roots of the Democratic Party especially with you know the connection to Margaret Sanger and eugenics and Hitler Dinesh D'Souza has done a lot in terms of the worst of the roots of the Democratic Party so if you just type in Dinesh and Democrats you're probably getting okay of course being on the wrong side of various civil rights issues over the years and then yeah but that's uh anyway your question for me sir so that that was the connection there has anybody done that and so that answers that part the other part was the like why hasn't anybody challenged the the whole issue of abortion is like when you read the Dred Scott decision it says you know he lost his case in that one by the Supreme Court because it says you know he's not a person yeah just like the argument for abortion because you know it's a woman's right yeah it's a good point so the Dinesh I just looked up Hillary's America the secret history of the Democratic Party so myself but Hillary's America the secret history documentary he put out you know people have Mike they have tried to draw attention to that that the dehumanizing of the black man in America the black woman in America it's not a full person and a whole Dred Scott decision that the baby in the womb is not a full person I have heard people raise those arguments and it is something to be raised you know I saw I saw a little clip from from Vice President Harris and she was asked about abortion and she said hey there are people who rightly differ with it and that's fine that's up to them we want to make it the people's decision that's why we have to reinstate Roe v. Wade and take it out of the hands of legislators who are now going to impose things so in other words she kind of kind of turned the narrative upside down and said yes some of you you you oppose abortion and you have a right to and you have your good reasons for it I respect that which is why I want to take it out of the hands of legislators and put it back in the hands of the people you decide so we have to reinstate Roe v. Wade which makes abortion the law of the land and now everyone's free to decide for themselves so it it sounds like a rights thing in all okay so you do you do want to make let us make our own decisions so how do you answer that you say well you're deciding for someone else's life that's the whole problem in other words you wouldn't say the same thing about the right of a parent to toss their child in the garbage and throw them away if the child is a bad child or if the baby cries all the time though that's infanticide that's murder so that's where we come back so that's a human being in the womb that's the problem it's not just your body your choice what about the body within your body hey thank you Mike for the questions and the call silencing the Lambs is a super important book if we never read it one of the most important I've read in years but it's not yet gotten the circulation it needs to get and it must it's it's an important read all right let's go to Sean in Florida time is short so dive right in hello hey I'm going to doctor brah good go ahead good good I just have a question about faith okay no Paul talks about the law and how the law doesn't necessarily justify us we're justified by Christ right so when it talks about that justification of Christ or keeping the faith of Christ is it what is exactly does it need to keep the faith of Christ is that just simply saying like hey follow his teaching keeping his commandments what exactly does it mean to have the faith in Christ to be justified right or is it just simply a matter of saying hey I believe he died for our sins I accept that he came down in the flesh and that's it right so it is not just mental assent in other words just agreeing with things James reminds us Jacob in the fourth chapter that the demons also believe in tremble they recognize certain things are true about God but saving faith is is putting one's trust in so you are saying I am putting my trust in Jesus to save me from my sins because he died for me and rose from the dead and I I am damned to hell I'm guilty in the sight of God I cannot save myself all if I try to live by the law I'm gonna fall short so I am putting my trust in him to forgive me to give me a brand new start not so I can continue to sin so I can now be God's child so the idea of faith saving faith being mental descent no the idea of saving faith just being saving from my sin meaning forgive me so I can continue to live in sin no it is saving faith faith in Christ is faith to save me from my sins that God forgives me and now empowers me to live for him that's the essence of salvation I am saved from sin to service of God I'm saved from being a child of Satan to being a child of God so and that means to walk in a different walk yeah we live a different life now obviously we're still not perfect in this world right we still fall sure right but he doesn't free us to sin he frees us from sin he sets us free not to continue to sin but sets us free from our sins as James Edwin or the revival scholar used to say the only proof of the new birth is the new life if there is not an issuance of a change of life at some point you question whether that person is pretty safe lessons to you this week
